Quotes of: Francis Keyword

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others

Games People Play

God too, has sinned, that's what I used to think. He looked down on this blazing hell, and he remained silent. (2007: 142)

The Guest

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.

Heart's Blood

Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

Heart's Blood

I don't care what problem you face; it has no power to defeat the cross of Christ.

How to Overcome Evil

Lulu twirled in front of Jolene, banging into the seat. her eyes sparkled in that I'm-either-going-to-scream-or-fall-asleep-any-second kind of way.

Home Front

If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.

The Book of Atrus

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

Baffled to Fight Better

Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.

Blade of Fortriu

I don’t feel old. I just feel like someone young who has something wrong with him.

The Blind Man's Garden

Are you saying that he deserves to die?' I asked, chilled. 'We all deserve to die,' he answered.

The Bewitchments of Love and Hate

It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

The Buddhist Way Of Life

People don’t want novelty – they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.

Broken Monsters

The more personal an example, the more richly it becomes encoded and the more readily it is remembered.

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting d...

Charles Taze Russell

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

George Andrew Olah

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.

Julius Wellhausen

From a very early age onwards, people's attention had been attracted to the volatile substances, characterized by strong smells or flavours, which are among the large variety of substances which form within plants; these were used partly for therapeu...

Otto Wallach

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone.

Kevin DeYoung